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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Jan 20, 1967

Page

8

Two Title I Programs Underway In Schools

Meigs Local School District starts two Title I programs with a combined budget over 24 thousand dollars. Public Health Services, at 8,654.70, uses a registered nurse to screen 350 students in grades 1-6 for health issues and arrange eye and dental exams and further care. The second program, 15,573.97, is Business Office Education for 60 students in Pomeroy, Middleport and Rutland high schools, with six teachers and new equipment worth 10,098.75, offering after school instruction several afternoons weekly.

Pomeroy Meigs George Hargraves Edna French Hargraves Middleport Rutland

Lohengrin Is Set Saturday on WOUB Radio

The Wagner opera Lohengrin will be broadcast Saturday at 2 p.m. on WOUB radio. The program will feature a second intermission talk by Edward Downes quiz master Walter Ducloux USC music department head and Eric Salzman. In a separate note Mrs Pearl Oliver reported mail box destruction and gunshot sounds near her home in Point Pleasant as a car drove away.

Richard Wagner WOUB Franz Liszt Weimar Germany Edward Downes Walter Ducloux University of Southern California Eric Salzman Point Pleasant Pearl Oliver Jerrico Read Sheriff's Department

Messenger Television Guide Friday Evening Schedule

Friday evening listings show Huntley Brinkley Report at 6, Rawhide movie at 10, news at 13, Wyatt Earp at 2 and What's New to close the night. The guide outlines channel identifiers and program blocks for a classic television lineup.

Rawhide Walter Cronkite Wyattt Earp Andy Williams

TV Schedule Dense with Classic Cartoon Lineups and Sports

A dense Saturday TV guide lists cartoon blocks like Popeye and Pals, Tom and Jerry, and Mighty Mouse across multiple hours, mixed with sports programming including MAC Basketball and CBS Golf Classic. The schedule features show times, channel notes, and archival titles such as Space Ghost and The Jetsons alongside classic sport events.

Evening TV Schedule Highlights and Late Night Lineup

A busy broadcast slate lists Big Red Basketball and OSU games alongside Classic Westerns, comedies, and variety shows. Notable entries include Mission Impossible, Gunsmoke, Lawrence Welk, and the Grand Ole Opry with dance parties and theater listings.

Lawrence Welk Big Red OSU

Frontiers of Faith and TV Guide Listing Chaos

Sunday schedule fragment lists daytime and prime time programs including Faith for Today Gospel Singing Jubilee and The Christophers with multiple channels and times. The Messenger notes potential scheduling errors as stations provide incomplete listings across CBS NBC and ABC affiliates in Columbus Huntington Parkersburg Zanesville and Athens.

Wbns-Tv CBS Columbus Wsaz-Tv NBC Huntington Whtn-Tv ABC WLWC Wtap-Tv

Meetings in Meigs and Local Societies

The Pomeroy W C T U meets at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Miss Lucretia Genheimer's home Bethel 62. International Order of Job's Daughters gathers 7:30 p.m. Monday at the temple. members recruit at 9:30 a.m. Saturday for Sunday Masonic program. Racine American Legion Post 602 Ladies Auxiliary meets 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the post home. Middleport Lodge 363 F and AM holds a special 7:30 p.m. Tuesday session at the Masonic Temple to confer the entered apprentice degree.

Bethel International Order of Job's Daughters Temple Racine American Legion Post 602 Middleport Lodge 363 F&am Masonic Temple

Movie Guide Clipping Lists 1967 Signups and Screenings

Fragmentary listings of films and times including The Delicate Delinquent The Devil Command Blood of Dracula Phantom of the Opera Arch of Triumph Heidi and more with a note that 222 members signed for 1967 Meigs County Farm Bureau membership drive in Pomeroy and a schedule of showings across multiple venues and dates with various stars and eras.

Pomeroy Meigs County Farm Bureau

Columbus firm weighs Vinton site for wood plant

A Columbus firm of six retired businessmen is considering locating a small woodworking plant in Vinton County. The group discussed toll call payments within the county and General Telephone will survey options. Zaleski Youth Camp Superintendent L. L. Russell outlined planned improvements and camp purposes.

McArthur Columbus Vinton County Industries, Ltd Vinton County Development Association Vinton County L. L. Russell Zaleski

Court Makes Appointments in January Term

Vinton County Common Pleas Judge C. W. Smith made two appointments at the start of the January term. Juanita L. Fayne of Ironton was named as official shorthand reporter on a day to day basis. The judge’s wife Gladys W. Smith was appointed divorce investigator and office clerk for the court.

Gladys W. Smith

Vinton 4-H Club Holds Meeting at Wellington Home

The Vinton Jolly Workers 4-H Club met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Wellington. Patrolman Cecil Carpenter spoke on safety to the members. Visitors included Tommy Cartwright of Columbus and several residents from nearby towns.

Vinton Jolly Workers 4-H Club Leo Wellington Cecil Carpenter Tommy Cartwright Columbus Ed McGhee Berdie Jane Lanier Mrs Hugh Lanier Charles Schultz George Johnson Gallipolis

Missionaries topic at Temple WSCS meeting

Mrs Arthur Crabtree spoke on The Missionary In An Uprooted Society at the Temple WSCS gathering. Hostess Roxie Arbaugh and devotion leader Mrs Howard Stanley were among attendees including Mrs Mendal Jordan and others. also noted are two Wahama High School teen dances with emcees the Jays.

Carpenter Arthur Crabtree Temple Wscs Roxie Arbaugh Howard Stanley

Wahama Band Boosters host spaghetti dinner in Point Pleasant

Wahama Band Boosters sponsor a spaghetti dinner Saturday with serving from 5 to 8 p.m. Tickets available through band members. Busy Bee 4-H Club to hold bake sale Saturday Jan 21 at Miller's Market New Haven starting 9 a.m. Items include pies cakes cookies cupcakes and soup. Jury sessions in Meigs County Jan 23-25 cancelled. jurors to be notified when to report.

Point Pleasant Wahama Busy Bee 4-H Club Miller's Market New Haven Pomeroy Meigs Evelyn Locke Lucke

Bridal Shower For Miss Carpenter Ahead Of Feb. 3 Wedding

Connie Jo Carpenter bride-elect of Keith Gordon Reiker Jr. was honored with a bridal shower hosted by Faye Carpenter and Delores M. Reiker in New Haven at the Junior Lodge Hall. The couple plans to wed February 3 at First Church of God in New Haven with an open reception at the bride-elect’s home following the ceremony.

Connie Jo Carpenter Keith Gordon Reiker Jr Faye Carpenter New Haven Delores M. Reiker Bradbury Miss Carpenter Mr. Reiker Church of God

School Board Faces Bus Driver Issues and Vacancies

McARTHUR The Vinton County Board of Education held a recessed meeting Tuesday night with a bus driver committee to discuss ongoing transportation problems. The board, facing seven faculty vacancies for the second semester, also reviewed new teacher applicants.

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